Though I could wend with thee I am not fain;
Do not, policeman, take me home again,
I dread my wife and would remain concealed,
Let me lie here!
John Cotton.
[The above appeared in the Central Literary Magazine, Birmingham, 1878.]
San Francisco Free Public Library, Jan. 20, 1885.
To Walter Hamilton, Esq.
Dear Sir,—I venture to interrupt you again with a transcript of a Tennyson Parody which you may not have seen. It can’t have the local flavour with you which it had when first printed, in the middle of General Butler’s political and oratorical campaign for the governorship of Massachusetts—not his successful one, but one of the others, about 1875. It first came out in the Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican newspaper.—Very truly yours,